Vested Interests: Cross-dressing and Cultural Anxiety
by Marjorie Garber
List Price:
Our Price: $27.27
You Save: $7.68 (22%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $22.37 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Marjorie GarberEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1997-11-25
ISBN: 0415919517
Number of pages: 464
Publisher: Routledge
Book Reviews of Vested Interests: Cross-dressing and Cultural Anxiety
Book Review: crossdressing & acadamic insight
Summary: 4 Stars
first off, i can't say i would recommend this book to someone who doesn't have a more academic background, flitting as it does from foucault to freud & back again, but i have to say that it's critique & thesis are well-reasoned, well-argued, & definitely well-referenced! it's like a cross dressing field guide in some ways... i found myself making up a list of movies/books to check out. even moreso, it's a great book for anyone wanting to study gender construction in general... as it gets at that shadowy figure inbetween the genders, who belies/affirms all the constructs...thank you marjorie garber!
Summary of Vested Interests: Cross-dressing and Cultural Anxiety
Beginning with the bold claim, "There can be no culture without the transvestite," Marjorie Garber explores the nature and significance of cross-dressing and of the West's recurring fascination with it.Vested Interests is a tour de force of cultural criticism: its investigations range across history, literature, film, photography, and popular and mass culture, from Shakespeare to Mark Twain, from Oscar Wilde to Peter Pan, from transsexual surgery and transvestite "sororities" to Madonna, Flip Wilson, Rudolph Valentino and Elvis Presley. What, Garber asks, does clothing have to do with sexuality? How do dress codes contribute to the organization of society? How is passing as a man or a woman related to racial passing? Is transvestitism a sign of homosexuality? What are the politics of drag? Why are cross-dressing rituals so commonly a part of the male power elite? How do transvestites appear--and disappear--in detective fiction? Is religious costume a kind of cross-dressing? Why is Peter Pan played by a woman?
The books fifteen chapters include "Cross-Dressing for Success," "Fetish Envy," The Chic of Araby," "Phantoms of the Opera," "Black and White TV" (on transvestitism in African-American literature and culture), Spare Parts" (on transsexual surgery, the surgical construction of gender) and "Red Riding Hood and the Wolf in Bed."
Rich in anecdote and insight, Vested Interests offers a provocative and entertaining view of our ongoing obsession with dressing up--and with the power of clothes.
Art History Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Audiobooks on Cassette
- Audiobooks on CD
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- e-Books
- Engineering
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Medicine
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Racism in the Gay Community
Out at Home: The Glenn Burke Storyby Glenn Burke, Erik Sherman
Excel Pub; Published: 1995-07; Paperback; Book
Price in other shops:
Opacity: Gender, Sexuality, Race, and the Problem of Identity in Martinique (Gender, Sexuality, and Culture, Vol. 2)by David A. B. Murray
Peter Lang Pub Inc; Published: 2002-06; Paperback; Book
Best price: $29.95
In Search of Gay America: Women and Men in a Time of Changeby Neil Miller
Atlantic Monthly Pr; Published: 1989-03; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $3.71
Price in other shops:
Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990 : An Oral Historyby Eric Marcus
Harpercollins; Published: 1992-06; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $0.99
Price in other shops:
Images of Ambiente: Homotextuality and Latin American Art, 1810-Todayby Rudi C. Bleys
Continuum International Publishing Group; Published: 2001-04; Paperback; Book
Best price: $35.88
Price in other shops:
Vested Interests: Cross-dressing and Cultural Anxietyby Marjorie Garber
Routledge; Published: 1997-11-25; Paperback; Book
Best price: $27.27
Price in other shops:
Shades of Love: Black Homosexuality Volume 1Release date: 2007-12-27; DVD
Best price: $19.95
Becoming Two-Spirit: Gay Identity and Social Acceptance in Indian Countryby Brian Joseph Gilley
University of Nebraska Press; Published: 2006-10-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.00
Price in other shops:
Losing Matt Shepardby Beth Loffreda
Columbia University Press; Published: 2001-10-15; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.99
Price in other shops:
Out in the World: Gay and Lesbian Life from Buenos Aires to Bangkokby Neil Miller
Vintage; Published: 1993-11-02; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.85
Price in other shops:
Similar Books and other products
Rabelais and His Worldby Mikhail Bakhtin
Indiana University Press; Published: 1984-08; Paperback; Book
Best price: $14.00
Price in other shops:
With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture)by Gayatri Reddy
University Of Chicago Press; Published: 2005-07-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $18.97
Price in other shops:
Transvestites: The Erotic Drive To Cross Dressby Magnus Hirschfeld
Prometheus Books; Published: 2003-12-30; Paperback; Book
Best price: $28.26
Price in other shops:
Female Masculinityby Judith Halberstam
Duke University Press; Published: 1998-12; Paperback; Book
Best price: $11.95
Price in other shops:
Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Lifeby Marjorie Garber
Routledge; Published: 2000-02; Paperback; Book
Best price: $22.95
Price in other shops:
Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of ReproductionUniversity of California Press; Published: 1995-07-31; Paperback; Book
Best price: $15.00
Price in other shops:
Geishaby Liza Dalby
University of California Press; Published: 1998-10-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.77
Price in other shops:
Guardians of the Flutes, Volume 1: Idioms of Masculinityby Gilbert Herdt
University Of Chicago Press; Published: 1994-12-15; Paperback; Book
Best price: $16.75
Price in other shops:
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Routledge Classics)by Judith Butler
Routledge; Published: 2006-05-12; Paperback; Book
Best price: $13.67
Price in other shops:
Cross Dressing, Sex, and Genderby Vern L. Bullough, Bonnie Bullough
University of Pennsylvania Press; Published: 1993-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $19.50
Price in other shops: